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OK, TIME FOR SOME NEW STUFF HERE
By GUMS

As most of you know, once in a while I'll write about a shop, store or service that gives good value to the biker community. You know what I mean, they just treat ya like they want to help ya out the best they can. Well, some times ya run into just the reverse of this. A business place that just doesn't give a shit for their customers. I have found at least two in the last month or so. First, I went to the local "TARGET" store on US 19 and Park Boulevard in what is called Parkside Mall. I was looking for a seat cover for the wife's car as an anniversary gift. After about twenty minutes of looking I stopped a sales clerk in a red shirt with a name badge on it and ask him where I could find "auto accessories." This, I thought, was a simple question. To my amazement, the jackass answers in very bad broken English "NO SPEAK ENGLISH." What the hell are ya doin workin in a retail store if ya can't answer questions from a born and raised AMERICAN CITIZEN in English? Then he called some other bean picker over and spoke to him in Spanish and the second guy told me also in broken English (and I quote) "YA, I THINK AUTO STUFF IS OVER THERE SOME WHERE" pointing to the other side of the store. I was so pissed that I took the Anniversary card and another gift I had picked up for the wife to the front of the store, where a fat old security guard was standing, and handed them to a young "WHITE AMERICAN ENGLISH SPEAKING" sales lady. I told her that I was going to talk to the manager and would not shop there again till they had an English speaking sales staff. I know that most all of the sales force speaks English, but there is no reason to have people who don't speak a single word of English on the sales floor. Let them clean the shit house or something! This gets better! When I calmed down later that day, I called the store manager to let him know how I felt. I was polite (yes I was)! and told him my little story. He said he was sorry for the problem I had with one of his sales staff and offered this excuse, maybe the sales clerk was on his way to lunch or break and since he only has a certain amount of time for his break, he just didn't have time to help me so he called another clerk over. Well, what the hell kind of bullshit is this!? I'm goin on my break so I don't have time to answer your questions in English. The manager said he would "look into" the problem and talk to his people. Screw that! This damn "BEANPICKER" shouldn't be on the floor as a sales person if he doesn't speak ENGLISH. Target has lost a good customer because their bottom line is more important than their customers! I hope most of you will shop where you can be served by English speaking sales people. Any of you folks been given lousy service by a non-English speaker??

WHILE I'M ON THE SUBJECT OF SHITTY SERVICE

I have been eating at the local "I HOP" just six miles down the road for about 15 to 18 years now. The restaurant in question is at 1290 Pasadena Ave here in St.Pete Fl. I guess they either changed managers or owners cause their service really sucks now! Used to be ya could go in almost any time of day and always get what ya wanted from a smiling happy staff and your order would by correct every time. Boy--oh--boy how things have changed. I started keeping a list in July just to see if it was me or if the restaurant really has gone down the shitter. Here is what I noted: SUNDAY, JULY 1st--wife ordered a bacon cheese burger with fries and I ordered a "breakfast sampler" (sampler comes with 2 eggs-2 pancakes-2 bacon strips-2 ham strips and 2-sausage links with hash browns) The cook forgot to put the bacon on the burger and they didn't give me the pancakes. (note, all the orders talked about here were orders "to go") Didn't find this out till we got home 6 miles away. SUNDAY, JULY 15th--We ordered basically the same thing. This time the restaurant didn't have any bags to put your order in. Ya had to carry six or seven foam containers to the car without dropping them and put them on the seat hopping the gravy wouldn't spill all over the car. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11th--Same order, just different day. This time the restaurant was all out of "Hash Brown Potatoes" by 2pm. I was so pissed that I got my money back and went to another I HOP and was really treated well. Then on SUNDAY, AUGUST 19th I figured I would give them one last try (and I do mean last). The wife went in and ordered the same as always, bacon cheese burger with fries and a breakfast sampler. Yup, you guessed it, got the whole damn thing home and once again and NO FUCKIN PANCAKES!!! I was so pissed that I called the restaurant and told them about their screw up. The waitress who answered the phone said and I quote, "OH YA I SEE THE PANCAKES, THEY'RE SITTING RIGHT HERE, DO YA WANT TO COME AND GET THEM?" Well, I live six miles away and I would guess that my dinner would be kind of cold by the time I drove 12 miles round trip just to get two lousy pancakes that should have been with the dinner to begin with. They did offer me a free dinner the next time I come in though. YA RIGHT! So they can fuck that one up too. I called the main office in California (and it wasn't even a toll free number either, had to pay for the damn call) and let them know that after fifteen or more years this restaurant is heading down the shitter because of piss poor management. There have been several smaller problems with this I HOP not worth going into in detail here, like cold food, food just thrown into a foam container and not separated from other food stuff's, no silverware, no napkins etc. The management of this place needs to get some serious training or get the hell out of the restaurant business and maybe work as a busboy or janitor for a while.

OK ENOUGH OF THAT, ON WITH SOME THING ELSE

A while back, I ask for info on some of the little things that just "PISS YA OFF." I wanted little things that most people don't even think of. Well, here a few from the readers of this site from all over the country. I didn't post the whole message, just what pisses folks off. Some are from men and some from women. I do not agree with all of these items, so don't get mad at me about them, these are YOUR opinions. Anyone who has something to add to this list, just send it on to me.

People who don't use turn signals when turning.(Ohio)
People throwing cigarette butts out their car window and hitting a bike behind them (Kentucky)
Cars blowing enough fumes and smoke out of their tail pipes to be used as a Navy smoke screen (Kentucky)
Assholes with "boomboxes" in their cars turned up so loud ya can't hear yourself think (Alabama)
Pop top cans that the tab breaks off when ya try to open it! (Florida)
Potato chip bags that rip down the side when ya try to open the top, put them in a ziplock bag (Florida)
People who turn on their turn signal and just turn without even looking to see if anyone is there (Texas)
People leaving their dog's shit everywhere when they take Fido for a walk, CLEAN IT UP (New York)
People who park in the middle of two parking places (Ohio)
Watching some jerk ridding his/her motorcycle wearing flip flops (Georgia)
People (guy's) blowing their nose right on the ground and not using a snot rag (Florida) (that is gross, "GUMS")
Guy's bragging about their custom bikes when they didn't even build it themselves (N.Carolina)
Women with dozens of tattoos (Colorado)
Women who go out and get drunk every night (Michigan) (this sounds like a personal problem to me, "GUMS")
Guy's with small "Dinks" (Kentucky) (Whoooooaaaa now!)
Foul mouth bitches (Florida)
Them damn "neon" lights all over cycles now days (Maine)
COPS (Washington State)
Bitches ridding their own bikes---get your ass on the back where you belong. (Tennessee)
Bikers suck (Georgia) Then why are ya reading this site asshole?
Yuppies tryin to be tough guy bikers (Florida)
People who trailer their bikes (N.Carolina) (HEY! Wait a minute now)
Putting all my groceries in one bag at the check out. (Texas)
Gas prices (from at least 5 states)
FAKE TITS! (Utah)
People who drive pick up trucks with a load of trash in the back blowing all over the road (Florida)
Bitches that won't show their tits (Canada)
Old farts (Florida) (be careful now)
Keeping pot illegal (Ohio)
The damn illegals sneaking into this country (Texas)
No one speaks English here in Miami any more (Florida)
You guy's who don't know how to put the seat down after you pee (Kentucky) (Hell, put it down then go pee, "GUMS")
The price of beer sucks (Boston)
Welfare for illegals (Oklahoma)
The price of pot nowadays (Alaska)
Those stupid looking choppers they are mass producing lately (Colorado)
Fake tattoos suck (Maryland)
Fat chicks dressing like they weighed 99 pounds (Kentucky)
Cold food when I eat out (Maryland)

I received a bunch more, but they were doing nothing but attacking a single person or company so I didn't post them. Keep them coming and I'll update this list every now and then.

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